[Samba] Backup from Linux onto Win2K-share

[John Snowdon]

Are you tar-ing onto the remote drive? tar is limited to 2gb unless you use the 'gnu format' archive option....

 John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist
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 Faculty of Medical Sciences Computing Dept
 School of Medical Education Development
 University of Newcastle

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stefan G. Weichinger [mailto:monitor at oops.co.at] 
>Sent: 14 November 2003 12:53
>To: samba at lists.samba.org
>Subject: Re: [Samba] Backup from Linux onto Win2K-share
>
>
>Guten Tag Carsten.Loeffler at command.de,
>
>am Freitag, 14. November 2003 um 13:35 schrieben Sie:
>
>> I'm sorry, but you're wrong.
>> 
>> I'm using NTFS (its a Win 2000 Advanced Server with ~ 1 TB Harddrive)
>> because of security.
>
>Ok.
>
>> I'm backing upwith SAP DB from a Windows-server to 
>Windows-server without
>> any of this problems. All other servers (except Linux) can 
>backup tons
>> of Gigabyte (the largest one is 120 GB) to that Windows-2000.
>> 
>> I only have this problem with my Linux boxes. And I can 
>resolve on any
>> other Linux box running any distribution (Mandrake, RedHat, 
>Suse ...).
>
>You mean, you have this problem with ALL your linux-boxes?
>
>Please describe in more detail, I haven´t got the whole picture yet.
>
>You have a Linux/Samba-machine which tries to put files to a
>W2K-share?
>
>Using smbclient? smbtar?
>Have you mounted the share via smbfs, maybe?
>
>regards,
>Stefan G. Weichinger
>mailto:monitor at oops.co.at
>
>
>
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